New Delhi, October 20, 2017: Pune, About 40 lakh businesses have filed their first GSTR1 for the month of July till 10th October 2017. This amounts to 62% of the total taxpayers liable to file their returns. Making the lives simpler for several businesses and stakeholders, Avalara an experienced Application Service Provider (ASP) provided the compliance automation solution known as Avalara Trust File GST to its customers for faster and seamless GSTR 1 filing for several companies such as Trimex industries, Elcom, Walter Pack automotive, Mantri metallic, Paranjape auto cast and many more.
“All our States Successfully filed (with DSC) the GSTR 1 through Trust File GST” expressed J Ganesh Pandian in finance department of Lotte India Corporation Ltd. “We thank Avalara for the wonderful support in successful completion of our GSTR1 filing.” Though there are still hiccups with GSTR 1 APIs from GSTN, Avalara ensured successful data upload and filing for its clients through efficient support and managed service assistance. There are several compliance solutions available in the market but it needs to be the best out of the rest and stand out amidst the complete crowd. Avalara Trust File GST Solution has emerged as a front runner in the list with its unique propositions, aiming to simplify the GST processes for the Indian enterprises.
The next solution will be provided in the form of Reconciliation and GSTR-2 Preparation and Transmission. The Government portal provides a download of transactions in GSTR-2A, and expects users to perform reconciliation manually. Trustfile GST provides a usable extract of GSTR-2A transactions in CSV format that can be used for one-to-one matching of Invoices reported by suppliers, against the Purchases in users’ Books of Accounts. Additionally, the solution also provides an automated mechanism to save transactions outside of the reconciliation process, in Bulk to GSTN.
William Rau, Sr Director Engineering, Avalara, stated, “The Government Council is fine tuning GST rules and regulations with each meeting as the GSTN continues to make the API updates necessary for GST automation to be possible. Avalara is meticulously tracking all of the domain and technical changes being made by the Govt to ensure complete and up to date compliance automation for our clients.”
Avalara Trust File GST is a cloud-based GST compliance solution providing end-to-end solutions and helps businesses of all sizes achieve GST compliance. Since the manual preparation of the GST records not only increases the costs in terms of devoting additional human resources but also makes the data susceptible to errors. Coupled with an additional advantage of prior GST experience (in Brazil and Canada) and Avalara’s experience in serving 20,000+ clients globally, Avalara Trust File GST helps with complete automation of GST compliances, be it accounting, reconciliation or return preparation. Trust file GST provides a huge array of benefits, including timely compliance, report generation, comparison of reports, decision making, cost-effectiveness with reduced staff, technical and online support, and more.
Avalara’s unique Pay per Use Model makes it more flexible and easy to use for the compliance professionals. With the new tax regime, there are bound to be new challenges. However, the challenges can be a stepping stone for growth while other businesses still figure out the right way.
